On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 10:15 -0400, Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > <snip> > Reduce the filesystem to 78G or 79G with resize2fs, then reduce the LV > to 80G, then grow the ext3 filesystem again to fill all the LV. This > should make it safer when cutting the LV. That's what I always do. It eliminates small chances of my math disagreeing with resize2fs's math. Plus, IIRC, then the second re-size doesn't need a size parameter. Resize2fs will automatically grow to the maximum allowed by the partition/logvol. > > HTH, > Filipe > <snip sig stuff> HTH -- Bill